How #29Leaks differs from Panama Papers, other leaks
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About #29Leaks:
Q: What does the name mean?
The collaborative reporting project’s name comes from the address of offshore services provider Formations House, located at the upscale 29 Harley Street in historic central London.
A: What does the leak involve?
The data sifted through, 131 gigabytes worth or roughly a million files, comes from a larger breach at Formations House of almost 450 gigabytes of data. The anti-secrecy group Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS, obtained it and while still planning to make it publicly available first offered investigative journalists a chance to dig through.
The investigative news site Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) created a search engine to allow the Miami Herald, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and other collaborating news organizations to view the data, which included more than 880,000 emails.
How does it differ from other “leaks” projects?
Unlike the 2016 Panama Papers, where the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists oversaw the collaborative effort, #29Leaks participants shared information but largely worked independently and often paired in smaller collaborative teams based on story interest.
Twenty-one news organizations from across the globe were involved in this smaller subset collaboration were free to publish beginning midnight GMT on Dec. 4, 2019.
This story was originally published December 5, 2019 at 8:40 AM.
